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The media run so many of those tear-jerking profiles of hardships Olympic athletes overcome that they lose their effect after a few days. But there’s at least one story that resonates deeply. Lopez Lomong, a Sudanese “Lost Boy” and a member of the anti-genocide group Team Darfur, certainly suffered more than most in his 23 years.
Is there something toxic in the Roman Catholic Womenpriests stories that makes reporters just forget everything they know about journalism?
An excellent example of journalism properly covering the issue of religion in an athlete’s life is this Runner’s World profile of Olympic marathoner Ryan Hall. I know many out there are skeptical when super rich athletes and coaches say something about how they thank the Lord for this or that or give God the honor, but bear with me because this story is about none of those things.
Most people complain about how long this campaign season has been, but I’ve loved every minute of it. The primaries, the world tour, the advertisements — I can’t get enough.
At all costs avoid the Associated Press’s coverage of the lawsuit against Victoria Osteen. The article the AP has distributed is full of examples of poor journalistic practices that damage the reputation of the profession.
Yesterday we looked at that Pew report which criticized the mainstream media’s coverage of Obama’s speech on race and religion. The report claimed that the media got the race angle at the expense of the religion angle.
OK, I have some questions after reading the mainstream news coverage of the funeral rites for Alexander Solzhenitsyn.
We never run out of stories to analyze here, but election years seem produce even more media coverage of religion than normal. Considering mainstream media’s trouble with getting religion, I am confident the religion beat would be doomed if not for the media’s great love of politics and the prominent role that religion plays in political fortunes.
I was in high school 20 years ago. It was an age of great pop music, mullets, and impending U.S. victory in the Cold War. If that sounds like a long time ago, it was.
